Treating tuberculosis michelle higgs investigates the development of sanatoria, where our ancestors were treated for tuberculosis

For about a decade I was convinced I was mortally ill. The identity of my illness changed several times, but the fear was always the same: in short, that I was dying; that I had some dreadful and no d

The statistics are terrifying. The burial entries in most parish registers from the 18th and 19th centuries show an appallingly high rate of infant and child mortality. Looking at some registers recen

LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu

Last time (FT460:28-35), we explored something of the historical background behind the idea of spontaneous human combustion and how the orthodoxy of forensics and fire experts has largely damned the p

After a love-at-first-sight viewing, novelist Rudyard Kipling found peace and sanctuary within the walls of this Jacobean house, located in the wooded landscape of the Sussex Weald

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